Frances Freeborn Pauley
Frances Pauley, social activist and political organizer, devoted her life to the battle against prejudice and discrimination in the southern US.
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The Scripto Strikes
During the factory’s tenure in Atlanta, the African-American women workers repeatedly organized to fight for higher wages, better positions, and an end to discrimination based on race and gender. These efforts were a significant precursor to the activism that would come to define the civil rights movement.
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
Sociologist, activist, teacher, and writer, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin spent a lifetime studying and combating economic and racial oppression. She is best known for her autobiography, The Making of a Southerner (1947).
Dorothy Rogers Tilly
One of the unheralded trailblazers of the civil rights movement, Dorothy Rogers Tilly devoted her entire adult life to reforming southern race relations. Her extensive career as an activist, organizer, and mentor forged a link between the reform efforts of the early twentieth century and the modern civil rights movement.
Fannie Lewis
Ward 7 representative for the Cleveland City Council for almost thirty years.
Ardelia Bradley Dixon
Civil rights activist and education advocate
Mildred Loving
In Loving v. Virginia, decided on June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down Virginia’s law prohibiting interracial marriages as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Martha Cardona
Puerto Rican woman who brought a legal case, Cardona v. Power (1966), for being denied suffrage due to her lack of English literacy.
Lateefah Simon
US Representative from California
Gwen S Moore
US Representative from Wisconsin